Why is the AA debate binary? Forum
- Veyron
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Why is the AA debate binary?
I don't understand why, in all of these recent threads on this topic - everyone seems to stake out one position or the other.
If AA is unconstitutional, it should be banned at public universities. However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
Edit: Mods, if this should be posted in off-topic feel free to move it. I forget where these are supposed to go.
If AA is unconstitutional, it should be banned at public universities. However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
Edit: Mods, if this should be posted in off-topic feel free to move it. I forget where these are supposed to go.
Last edited by Veyron on Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
- Bill Cosby
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
For the same reason they're not able to say they'll only admit white students.
- D-ROCCA
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
I think interstate commerce clause can be used.
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
People don't "debate" about AA on the internet. They yell.
Also: IBTL
Also: IBTL
- Nogameisfair
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
Massive federal subsidization?Veyron wrote:However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
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- Veyron
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
Sure, but then again, the Icommerice clause can be used to do just about anything. But I'm coming at this from the conservative perspective that it SHOULDN'T. Certainly people with a similar outlook, as most AA proponents profess to share, would have to agree that the government messing with the admissions policies of a school is undesirable.D-ROCCA wrote:I think interstate commerce clause can be used.
Although... I do see the elegance of your argument. Is education interstate commerce if I fly from X state to Y state to attend school? Possibly - even for the strict constructionist. Its a nice way to avoid using the 14th amendment as a hook since the private thing would give you more problems there.
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- Veyron
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
So people who live in section 8 housing should have their lives similarly regulated?Nogameisfair wrote:Massive federal subsidization?Veyron wrote:However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
- Nogameisfair
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
What the... Are you a 1L? This is such a "I learned to make [strained] analogies," moment.Veyron wrote:So people who live in section 8 housing should have their lives similarly regulated?Nogameisfair wrote:Massive federal subsidization?Veyron wrote:However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
- Veyron
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
Nogameisfair wrote:What the... Are you a 1L? This is such a "I learned to make [strained] analogies," moment.Veyron wrote:So people who live in section 8 housing should have their lives similarly regulated?Nogameisfair wrote:Massive federal subsidization?Veyron wrote:However, why shouldn't private universities be able to do whatever the fuck they want?
What the... are you a junior high school student. This is such a "I learned to make ad hominem attacks" moment.
If you want to give me the beat down with some legal reasoning, on the other hand, I'd be glad to take it. I'm trying to build some constitutional analysis skills here.
- Nogameisfair
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
I'll take your unnecessary use of latin as a "yes." I wasn't really attacking you. Your analogy doesn't at all respond to my comment... so I didn't see a need to answer. But, I get a kick out of the absurd analogies you draw... To answer your question, YES. Section 8 housing is by definition government regulation. The very name is a reference to a statute... AND yes, those living in Section 8 housing are, and should be, regulated by the government. But, I don't really understand what this has to do with constitutional analysis.Veyron wrote: What the... are you a junior high school student. This is such a "I learned to make ad hominem attacks" moment.
If you want to give me the beat down with some legal reasoning, on the other hand, I'd be glad to take it. I'm trying to build some constitutional analysis skills here.
- vanwinkle
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Re: Why is the AA debate binary?
This tells me you knew well enough that you shouldn't be doing this. Enjoy your tempban.Veyron wrote:Edit: Mods, if this should be posted in off-topic feel free to move it. I forget where these are supposed to go.
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